Schools in America are currently gravitating to criminalizing childhood behavior. These interactions may vary across regions and jurisdictions. Legal rights, have and will continue to arise as police become more present in school buildings. However, the typical school rules are changing in ways that are not what many parents of children can relate to or know. Many schools have adapated having law enforcement present, which may not inherently be bad. The issues start to surface once an officer has to get involved and when they do citations and charges follow. What constitutes as a simple child act becomes a crime and punishments are then carried out by the state that wouldn’t be carried out if an adult was to do the same action. One of the articles
